Sokal affair

The Sokal affair was a hoax created by a scientist named Alan Sokal. In 1996, he wrote a fake academic paper full of nonsense to see if it would be accepted by a scientific journal. In other words, he wanted to find out if the journal would publish a paper even if it was full of wrong or made-up ideas. In the end, the journal did publish his paper and they were tricked by his hoax! This caused a lot of embarrassment to the journal and made people question its credibility. So, the Sokal affair is an example of how people can be tricked into believing something that isn't true if it's not carefully checked.